The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-23


ment, should it pass. See Brown
vs.. state OF Mary land, Il " htat,
419, liconse case. 9TH Howard U.o.
512-729)
Prohibition is called
4 MORAL QUESTION
by some, who ike the Pharlsees III
! their prayers, thank Cod that they !
are not Ike other hen.
| Democracy teaches that the least
possible restraint upon the liberties OF
men consistent with peace and public
order is wis est and best for the peo'
pie. Government prescrloes
truies Of civil conduct--cOhduct con
sidered be to promote the gener-
al. welfare leaving religion and
moras TO reason and conscience.
All talk about morals is Irrelevant,
The oueAtIon al The ballot boX tor
the voters is HIS: lis 1T best tor
the people to prohibit or permit
l the manufacture and sale OF liquor
rs a drina?
, TO make, sell or drink liquor is
not immoral or criminal III Itself
unless prohibited 10y law. AS good
men as ever lived ana died have
made, sold and drank iquor-men
, " hose moral character Is without
STAN or bIemish.
To advocate prohibition on NOR
= al or religious grounds is to return
f 10 the logic OF the dark ages, when
, men protesting to be the followers
OF the meek and lowly Jesus, pre-
q sided at the inquisItion and the rack
, to torture and murder brave men and
. beautiful women as heritics, and for
i tor opinions sake.
The question OF morals, Ike that
# of fate and free will, Is an untath-
= omaDle and boundless sea, upon
" which the prudent men will be slo "
= to launch the ship of State.
Neither moralists, philosophers
or statesmen can tell whether the
moral sense Is innate or acquire d
y NOR does the law of nature or his
~ tory of nations furnish any common
~ standard by which the morals o.
J men can be accurately measured. Il
;" is written tour thousand years since
- that h. Greeks (who burned th'
~ deadJ and the HIndO (who eat them
~ met and compared morals aud wer
~ both sho 3ked and disguised will
a., each other.
~ Ii was moral for the Jews to XII
= all conquered people, including WO
> me and children.
- 1t was moral for the h )mans t
axe the lands Of the conquered
ire and to sell them Is slaves.
on 1t was moral tor The religious pee
Inv ole Of New England to cut oil til
~ ears ami bore holes with red>hot iron
M through the tongues of peaceil
he and harmless Quakers, aud 10 pt
,ao innocent men and women to deaf
ans for wItchcratt:
~, 1t was good morals tor the poop
~. of certain States in this Union
rn, make great profit out of the pe0pl
q of other States ny selling them rul
o. which they distilled, and negro
- whom they XII mapped and imporL'
rnt from Africa.
1ra 1t was also higher sort of me
III ais for these same people to res
~ great profits in pay and pensiol
as the fruits Of war to set tree t
,;ry negroes whom they had sold III
m slavery.
Ia 1t is immoral to bet dollar up
- Il game OF hazard and address, b
-. - m oral to bet thousands upon IA
las track:
10" It is Immoral to lie and cheat il
40 horse swap, But if a man IS Pre-
S dent OF a railroad, he may run /
stock up and down, buy and Sc
ram the stUckho ders, MAKE mIliIl
-, ioin the chnrch, and De an eXemP
no IN charities and lii morals.
.i-l' Itis also moral 10 get up boo
and sell worthless stocks Tor
barG-earned dollars OF uHsuspect
10 people.
II a lis also moral to take usury
m the hundred thousand dollars,
for make corners in stock, " neat, {"
Ihtv meat. C flee and other articles
heir starve ana swindle poor, honest
n of pie.
own 1t is moral with some PeoPte
,c,al have but one wife, with others
Inv | have more. 1t Is probable mat
sses- this moral, Chisuan land Of ours,
and smile of legal prohibition, there
good more persons VINO violate .iieI I'm ~
rage VOWS than there are drunkaI
on II = also true that adultery is
III Of tile greatest Of all sins agar
God, society, posterity, the lam
II "a and the home
Ii a Let .n''so ~ ~ nror drnnpara
or c'lS' So ;t,.,,it,- =, -